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In this role, you will lead and scale our software quality operations primarily by managing and steering our outsourced third-party QA vendor teams.\nYou will bridge the gap between internal product management, engineering teams, and external QA partners-ensuring that our software releases meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and security.\nCe que vous ferez\nKey ResponsibilitiesQA Strategy & Process Governance\nDefine, execute, and evolve the enterprise QA vision across web, mobile, and API platforms.\nEstablish automated quality gates within our CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous integration and deployment security.\nDrive test planning, execution strategy, risk analysis, and test data management strategies.\nLead root-cause analysis (RCA) sessions for high-severity production defects and institute preventative measures.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nPartner closely with Product Managers, Software Engineering Leads to integrate testing early in the AiDLC\nServe as the primary escalation point for quality-related issues across all release streams.\nReport quality health dashboards and operational status directly to senior technology leadership.\nCore Competencies & Skills\nVendor Governance & SLA Management: Defining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Statement of Work (SOW) oversight, vendor performance reviews, and cost/budget management.\nQA Strategy & Test Governance: Architecting end-to-end testing strategies (manual, automated, performance, security), establishing quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, and driving a \"shift-left\" testing culture.\nDistributed Team Leadership: Managing offshore/nearshore talent across multiple time zones, fostering quality ownership across vendor boundaries, and mitigating communication bottlenecks.\nMetrics & Quality Analytics: Tracking defect leakage, test coverage, sprint velocity, defect mean-time-to-detect (MTTD), and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).\nBilingual Communication (Quebec Requirement): Professional proficiency in both French and English is standard for Montreal-based leadership positions to align with local business operations and Quebec language laws (Bill 96).\nTool Stack (in bold what we used):\nTest & Defect Management: Jira, Xray, Zephyr, TestRail\nTest Automation Frameworks: Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, RestAssured\nCI/CD & Pipeline Integration: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps\nPerformance & Load Testing: JMeter, k6, BlazeMeter\nCollaboration & Vendor Management: Confluence, Slack, MS Teams, Miro, Notion\nAnalytics & Reporting: Power BI, Tableau, Jira Dashboards\nAI tooling: Claude, Codex...\nQualifications & Requirements\nExperience: 7+ years in Software Quality Assurance with 3+ years in a senior lead, manager, or QA director capacity.\nOutsourced Team Oversight: Proven track record of directly managing vendor teams, third-party contracts, and offshore/nearshore testing units (20+ engineers).\nTechnical Depth: Hands-on background in test automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium) and API testing (Postman, REST APIs).\nProcess Mastery: Deep knowledge of release management, and continuous delivery pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps).\nLanguage: Professional fluency in both French and English (spoken and written), required for local alignment and compliance in Montreal.\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nThis job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and may be modified at the discretion of Simpro Group at any time.\nCe que vous apportez\nNos valeurs fondamentales\nNous formons une seule équipe\n\nNous sommes centrés sur le client\n\nNous avons une mentalité de croissance\n\nNous sommes responsables\n\nNous célébrons les réussites\n\nSimpro, AroFlo, BigChange et ClockShark sont des employeurs souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. 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